Hell Girl

There is a rumor going on at Japanese Schools. It's said that at midnight one can access a webpage called Jigoku Tsushi (Hell mail). On this webpage, if the name of a person who you want to take revenge on is written, Jigoku Shojo appears and sends this person to hell. However, the person who writes other´s name on Jigoku Tsushi will be sent to hell when he/she dies too. Basically, the anime series is a collection of independent stories. Each one tells a story of the suffering of an individual or group of individuals, the covenant with Jigoku Shojo and the aggressor´s punishment by her. Each story is told from the beggining of the harassment, passing through the unbearable anguish suffered by the victims, then finishing up with the protagonist requiering the help from the Hell Girl.

School Rumble

School Rumble tells about the daily lives of the students of a fictious Highschool called Yagami. The series is a romatic comedy with some very exaggerated scenes. Tenma Tsukamoto, a sophomore, is the female main character. She has a crush on an eccentric guy called Ooji Karasuma. Tenma doesn’t know how to confess her love to him. She will try the most surrealistic and absurd ideas in order to confess her love to Karasuma. The story gets even more complex with Kenji Harima, the male main character. Harima is a delinquent who is in love with Tenma, but he, as Tenma does, has the same problems to confess his love to her. The attempts of the two main character to try to confess their love to the people they have a crush on, create really hilarious situations.

As the story progresses, Harima and Tenma become very good friends. Eri Sawachika, one of Tenma’s best friends, developes an attraction to Harima.This is as a result of many embarassing situations in which they get involved. Also, Harima develops an affectionate relation with Tenma’s younger sister,Yakumo Tsukamoto, who along the story helps him draw his manga. As the story carries on, Harima helps Tenma improve her relationship with Karasuma but also, Harima’s relationships with Yakumo and Eri get more serious. This story contain lots of humor, pretty girls, romance, fanservice ...In short, it is a must-see to everyone out there who enjoys good anime.

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac

Created by Jhonen Vasquez (Invader Zim) this comic book tells the story of a serial killer called Johnny "Nny" C., who elaborately slaughters everyone who pisses him off. After that, Johnny drains the blood of his victims and uses it to paint over a wall in his house to prevent a monster from escaping. That sounds damn crazy, doesn't it??; and, that is exactly what you will find in this comic, pure insanity. The way it mixes comedy, violence and twisted-psychological stuff, makes it a unique piece of dark comedy.

Giant Gundam comes to life

The giant statue marked the 30th anniversary of the anime series Gundam

School Days

Makoto Itou, a highschool student, is in love with a girl who he always meets on the train on his way to school, Kotonoha Katsura. He also secretly takes with his cellphone a picture of her. Due to a seat-changing arrangement in Makoto´s classroom, he ends up sitting beside Seika Saionji. While Seika was playing with Makoto's cellphone, she finds Kotonoha's picture. So, Seika realizes that Makoto is in love with Kotonoha. Then, Seika offers to help Makoto confess his feelings to Kotonoha. Thanks to Seika´s help, Makoto confesses to Kotonoha and she agrees to start dating him. Later, While Makoto was waiting for Kotonoha at the train station, Seika shows up. Makoto thanks Seika for helping him with Kotonoha and tell her that he owes her a favor. Suddenly, Seika kisses Makoto and tells him that 'that is enough for her' .Due to Makoto´s indecision about his feelings towards Seika and Kotonoha, the School Days' story of Drama and Romance gets started.

Detroit Metal City

Detroit Metal City is a manga published by the magazine Young Animal since 2005. In 2008 ,13 animated episodes that were about 13 minutes long each were produced. DMC also has a 104 minute long movie in which Gene Simmons participates.

The anime is about Shoiji Negishi, a timid singer who came to Tokyo from the countryside wishing to become a pop singer. But for several reasons, he ends up playing in a Death Metal Band that becomes a huge success.On scene, Shoiji wears an outlandish outfit so that his identity remains unknown. His artistic name is Johannes Krauser II according to the rumors (made up by fans) he is a demon from hell who killed his parents and after that, committed several other crimes.

What is amusing about it is that Shoiji doesn´t like Death Metal at all nor did he like its philosophy (songs that incite crimes to be commited, death, diabolic rites, etc). He still wishes to become a pop artist and sings happy and romantic songs. Unfortunately, he performs his role as Johannes Krauser II so well that he can’t quit DMC.

Sundome

The “Roman Club,” a school group interested in the occult, to which he’s practically enslaved, has become boring for one Hideo Aiba. Until a girl named Kurumi Sahana shows up and wants to join up. But Sahana is no ordinary girl… When the two are left alone in the club classroom, Kurumi makes a special “request” of Hideo… From that moment on, Hideo’s dull life gets far more…frustrating. Sundome literally means "stopping the moment before," and considering the content of the story, it refers to being stopped just before cumming or ejaculating.

Galaxy Express 999

After his mother was killed by the evil robot ,Count Mecha, Tetsuro becomes a delinquent who only thinks of vengeance. Tetsuro lives in a futuristic distant world in which Humas can travel to another planet to change their bodies and become immortals. They can also get mechanical limbs. Tetsuro’s objective is to get enough money to board The Galaxy Express 999 so that he can get to the Robot Planet.Galaxy Express 999 is a train capable of travelling throughout space.

Once, after escaping from the police, Tetsuro meets Maetel, a beatiful woman who resembles his mother. She offers to take him in The Galaxy express 999, so he can get his robotic body and take his revenge on Count Mecha. Along their journey, they will meet lots of people and Tetsuo will learn what being a human means.

Plamoo animations and Marvel vs. DC

While Surfing on the internet, I bumped into two outstanding works of stop motion animation. One of which is made by a Japanese company? group? guy or girl??(I really don't know) called Plamoo. They use figures of popular anime characters in their animations.

The other one is maybe not as impressive as plamoo animations but it sure is hilarious. I'm talking about Marvel versus DC stop motion animation. As its name says, they use Marvel and DC action figures to create their comedy sketches.

You can watch more Plamoo and Marvel versus DC animations in this video section of this blog.

K-ON!

This story revolves around four freshmen highschool girls. Yui Hirasawa , a cheerful, easy going and carefree girl, is impatient to find a club in which she can participate. Meanwhile, Ritsu Tanaka (drummer) asks her best friend Mio Akiyama (Bassist) to enroll in their high school's light music club. Unfortunately, they realize that the club is about to be disbanded because all of its members have already graduated from highschool. If they want the light music club to live on, they will have to recruit four members. Therefore, Ritsu and Mio desperately try to find two members so the club will not be disbanded. Ritsuo and Mio get to recruit Tsumugi Kotobuki who tells them that she only knows how to play the keyboard. So, this means that they only have to find one more member in order to save the light music club from disbanding. Finally, the cheerful Yui decides to join the light music club. Unfortunately, the club needs the most important part in a band: the guitarist, and Yui Hirasawa has no experience at all playing any musical instrument.

Hikikomori

The hikikomori are teenagers and young adults who are overwhelmed by the pressure that Japanese society places upon them. Therefore, these individuals withdraw themselves from society, sometimes spending several months and even years without leaving their houses. This is a short documentary directed by Francesco Jodice and Kal Karman that explores in depth the hikikomori phenomenon in Japan.

Serial Experiments Lain

After the suicide of a student called Chisa Yamada, her classmates started receiving strange posthumous e-mails sent by Chisa from a place known as The Wired. Among them is Lain Iwakura, a withdrawn fourteen-year old girl. Withouth knowing how to use a computer very well, Lain reads the e-mail sent by the dead girl. Out of curiosity, she tries to find out more about it. She asks her father for a new Navi (computer) so that she can get to know more about the Wired (a computer navigation system similiar to the Internert).

Little by little, Lain’s life starts to revolve around the Wired only. Her only friend Alice is worried about her so, she invites Lain to hang aroung with her and her friends. Thus, Lain gets to know about the existence of a mysterious Psico chip. Later, It grants her free access to the Wired. Steadily, Lain becomes a sort of omnipotent being in the Wired, like a god. As the story progresses, She starts discovering more about the functioning of the Wired. Then, Lain notices that a mysterious group of men in black are watching over her house and so do the Knights (some kind of hackers in the Wired).

So famous and powerful Lain becomes in the Wired that she losses her interest in the real world. As she is finding new things out , her girlfriends start receiving rumors about Lain’s alter-ego which is completely different from her normal personality in the real world. As Lain becomes more independent in the Wired she starts questioning herself about what her real personality is and Who is the "real" Lain?

Despera

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Despera is the new project that will mark the long-awaited return of the team responsible for the epic cyberpunk anime Serial Experiments Lain. This story takes place in the Taisho Era in 1922, a year before Kanto's great earthquake struck Tokyo. Ain a 14 year-old girl and a mysterious man live in the basement of the famous "Ryounkaku", a twelve storey building located in Asakusa District. Ain spends all her time making strange scientific inventions. Among these inventions are some cathode ray screens. Ain's friend claims that he can see the future through them

Colorful

Colorful is an comedy-ecchi anime created by Torajirou Kishi. Colorful revolves around some perverted guys and their desperate attempts to secretly take a peek at girls' panties, cleavages and other parts of the women's anatomy...most of the time ending up with disastrous and hilarious consequences. This anime is filled with panty and cleavage shots, and lots of nose bleeds. Colorful anime has 16 episodes that are 7 minutes each.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Created by Japanese Mangaka Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is about Highschooler Haruhi Suzumiya's life and those who are involved in her crazy adventures. Haruhi Suzumiya´s light novels first appeared in a Seinen magazine called The Sneaker. So famous were Haruhi´s novels that they were later published in various other sources. Two manga series were created but the first one was discontinued shortly after it started its production. The second one is still on-going. The anime that has the title of the first novel, incorporates elements of its novel and manga versions. Currently, a second anime season is airing. This new season has gained notoriety because it has eight, almost identical, episodes. This arc was named "The Endless Eight". This fact drove the thousands of avid Haruhi fans nuts (Although i'm not a hardcore Haruhi fan, it sure did drive me crazy as well).Well, let's start from the beginning.

Plot

Haruhi Suzumiya has always been a mysterious girl since she was in middle school. Now that she is in highschool she doesn't seem to get along with anybody.Kyon, also a highschool freshman who is in the same classrom as Haruhi, notices her strange behaviour. For example, Kyon notices that Haruhi changes her hair style depending on the day of the week. On their first day at Highschool Haruhi's homeroom teacher asked her students to introduce themselves. When Haruhi's turn to introduce herself came, she went "I'm not interested in none of you, unless you are time travelers, aliens or espers." The whole classroom was more than surprised at such rare introduction. This also made Kyon even more curious about what Haruhi is really like. One day during lunch break Kyon decides to approach Haruhi and starts chatting with her. A club choosing event was taking place at Haruhi's and Kyon's Highschool. Then, Kyon sat next to Haruhi and asked her what club she was going to join. She said that she finds all the clubs boring. Kyon said that he also wasn't sure what club to join. "I guess I will have to form my own club," said Kyon. I bet Kyon wished he hadnt said that..Then, Haruhi said to Kyon that she will form her own club. Suddenly, she took Kyon by his tie and left the classroom.Kyon didn't know what was going on. "What is this girl girl thinking ?" asked Kyon to himself. What Haruhi was about to do is to form her own highschool club. It would be known as the S.O.S Brigade. This club would be focusing on investigating and solving paranormal events. Kyon joins Haruhi's club against his will since he thought it was a silly idea. At the beggining, Kyon only joins Haruhi´s club to prevent "defenseless victims" from joining it by force. But as the story progresses we will get to know that these "defenless victims" have a reason for joining Haruhi's club.

Uzumaki

The hypnotic and evil power the Uzumaki (Spirals) transmits over the inhabitants of Kurozu-cho has caused the most bizarre events ever seen. The cursed spirals are everywhere in the sky, the air, water and even inside us. The curse is spreading all over the city. There is no escape from the horror that the spirals has unleashed, and that is known by Shuichi. Shuichi's father has died. His body was found totally bent as if it was a spiral. Shuichi is now a sad, depressed and lonely teenager who is only understood by Kirie, his girlfriend. As the story unfolds, Shuichi and Kirie witness and suffer the madness unleashed by the Spirals. The nightmare won´t end until the cycle is accomplished...and it starts over.